I was told as a child that I had a grandfather that helped to build Ft. McHenry and that there was an unexploded bomb shell from the bombardment of 1814 on the Fort that he was to have brought back to Synder Co.,Pa. Turns out it was true. Frederick Evans was a Capitan in the War of 1812.He directed in the building of Fort McHenry,Maryland,and was in the Fort during the bombardment of 1814 This shell(ball) stayed in the Bower family till the1940's and then was given back to the Fort where it is now displayed with my 4th grgrandfathers name Capt. Frederick Evans and the history behind the shell. Not very exciting, but I always thought it was a "tall tale". Boy, I was wrong. Gloria